A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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Página 54
... believe that their reason is lord over their words , but , it happens , too , that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect . Words , as a Tartar's bow , shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest , and ...
... believe that their reason is lord over their words , but , it happens , too , that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect . Words , as a Tartar's bow , shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest , and ...
Página 64
Henry Attwell. READ not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse but to weigh and consider . Bacon . OPINIONS OF INDIVIDUALS . If all mankind minus one were.
Henry Attwell. READ not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse but to weigh and consider . Bacon . OPINIONS OF INDIVIDUALS . If all mankind minus one were.
Página 65
... believe , nor yet in his intellectual capacity , which is often associated with the meanest moral character , the most abject servility to those in high places , and arrogance to the poor and lowly ; but a man's true greatness lies in ...
... believe , nor yet in his intellectual capacity , which is often associated with the meanest moral character , the most abject servility to those in high places , and arrogance to the poor and lowly ; but a man's true greatness lies in ...
Página 92
... believe that there is some- thing still left for it to accomplish , and assure themselves that they are more in need of origin- ality the less they are conscious of the want . ORIGINAL PEOPLE . J. S. Mill . A mesure qu'on a plus d ...
... believe that there is some- thing still left for it to accomplish , and assure themselves that they are more in need of origin- ality the less they are conscious of the want . ORIGINAL PEOPLE . J. S. Mill . A mesure qu'on a plus d ...
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Página 91 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 59 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 117 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 129 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Página 124 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Página 206 - Beyond all this, we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with ; that we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of complete happiness in all the enjoyments which the creatures can afford us, might be led to seek it in the enjoyment of Him " with whom there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures...
Página 54 - But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Página 121 - God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly. We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness : few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself; and this many rich men do, loading themselves with corroding cares, to keep what they have, probably, unconscionably...
Página 65 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Página 44 - L'homme digne d'être écouté est celui qui ne se sert de la parole que pour la pensée, et de la pensée que pour la vérité et la vertu.